I am still trying to work out what went right in the hopes of being able to bottle it and export it to other groups of people.
A large part of this is probably the homogeneity effect. When you are surrounded by similar individuals, you tend to be happier. Would a conservative person be happy in this setting?
IF that’s the case, perhaps the thing to “bottle up and export” is the idea that people should be pro-active about getting involved with groups which share common interests and values to themselves.
Modern life puts a lot of diverse groups into contact with each other. Not only that, the information age makes it so that some people have culture imprinted from written material and no one in their geographic range shares their values. The internet can re-create the ancestral conditions of homogeneity.
I’m all for conservatives having their church groups and stuff if it makes them happier and healthier, even if I don’t agree with the values around which they congregate. But I’d be somewhat concerned about intensifying polarization of attitudes if this were to become a thing.
A large part of this is probably the homogeneity effect. When you are surrounded by similar individuals, you tend to be happier. Would a conservative person be happy in this setting?
Well, he did not say that “awesome” is a one-place word. ;-)
IF that’s the case, perhaps the thing to “bottle up and export” is the idea that people should be pro-active about getting involved with groups which share common interests and values to themselves.
Modern life puts a lot of diverse groups into contact with each other. Not only that, the information age makes it so that some people have culture imprinted from written material and no one in their geographic range shares their values. The internet can re-create the ancestral conditions of homogeneity.
I’m all for conservatives having their church groups and stuff if it makes them happier and healthier, even if I don’t agree with the values around which they congregate. But I’d be somewhat concerned about intensifying polarization of attitudes if this were to become a thing.